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BBC and Raymond Baxter came to the RAF station my dad worked at,the later showing was full of incorrect information etc.Check as much as you can,read widely be aware of source,be aware of own bias etc.WE can all the see exactly the same thing and interpretate totally differently.

I put this up before, but it's a goody. From The Telegraph, before the election.

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27 MAY 2017 • 7:08PMThe pound is in for “a rough ride” if the Conservatives lose the general election, currency traders and analysts believe, after a number of strong polls for Labour sent the currency into a tumble late last week.

Sterling could fall by another 5pc on a Labour victory, forcing the currency down to $1.20 against the dollar. The pound has not been below this level for a prolonged period at any time since the 1980s.

Against the euro the pound could fall to as low as €1.08 to $1.09, a level not seen since the depths of the financial crisis.

Theresa May called it, 'an unfortunate error'I've so little confidence in Tory government, absolutely awful, amateur, rude and unprofessionalLabour's responses good, reading the articleAlso, I'd not realised May was back from her European holidays

On the plus side, an idiot metro mayor in the Tees Valley could be a big problem for the Tories. Johnson, by the end, was a problem for them in London. Of course, London is more able to survive a dreadful mayor than other areas.

Theresa May called it, 'an unfortunate error'I've so little confidence in Tory government, absolutely awful, amateur, rude and unprofessionalLabour's responses good, reading the articleAlso, I'd not realised May was back from her European holidays

Yes - she's been back a few days, now (but she's already used well over her quota of "clearlies").

Postcards usually arrive some time after the sender's return, so I expect yours will arrive in due course.

Robertson endorsed Townend's controversial remarks about race[5] on BBC's Newsnight saying that Townend's remarks were "basically true" and "having too many people in different multi-racial groups makes society very difficult to manage, especially in certain parts of the country. It is not that easy to manage that kind of society."

Bar stool erudition. "People in different multi-racial groups"? "Certain parts of the country".

Actually, most of them have Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - a bit of an old buffer but not in the Ridley/Robertson league really.

My childhood abode is also in the present day Tewkesbury seat, but was part of Gloucestershire W back then.

Somewhere round Churchdown area? I'm from Cheltenham.

Clifton-Brown's a reasonably standard farmer/landowner type, there are many worse. I don't like the look of Cheltenham MP, Alex Chalk, because he's ex-Hammersmith and Fulham Council. Neil Carmichael in Stroud was one of the better ones, but lost in 2017.

This just popped up in the local news (yes, I know I don't live in Scotland, but they actually live in Bath). One of those 'can't comment on as case ongoing' things, but I thought I'd link in case anyone is interested:

The pro-independence blogger behind the Wings Over Scotland website has been arrested for alleged online harassment.Stuart Campbell was arrested in the west of England on Friday following a complaint from a woman in south London.She had made allegations of harassment taking place over a two-year period.

On the plus side, an idiot metro mayor in the Tees Valley could be a big problem for the Tories. Johnson, by the end, was a problem for them in London. Of course, London is more able to survive a dreadful mayor than other areas.

Of course they might have found a slightly better candidate if they'd thought he'd win.

This just popped up in the local news (yes, I know I don't live in Scotland, but they actually live in Bath). One of those 'can't comment on as case ongoing' things, but I thought I'd link in case anyone is interested:

The pro-independence blogger behind the Wings Over Scotland website has been arrested for alleged online harassment.Stuart Campbell was arrested in the west of England on Friday following a complaint from a woman in south London.She had made allegations of harassment taking place over a two-year period.

Cheers.

He's a "Hillsborough truther" and very dishonest presenter of economic data on Scotland. He's been crowd sourcing suing Kezia Dugdale who called him a homophobe. I'm not aware he is, but he did make some unpleasant remarks about trans. Not that I know anything about libel, but I wonder how that might play out if it went to trial.

Unfortunately this goon kept his seat. Not that I wanted another Tory MP, but I'd have traded him for Angus Robertson, for sure.

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Pete Wishart‏Verified account @PeteWishartFollowMoreAll day there will be an almost pointless debate about an indy Scotland based on figures which partly show how Sco's doing as part of the UK2:28 am - 23 Aug 2017

"Partly", eh?

This was what he said when higher oil prices meant Scotland were doing better than rUK:

If you don't follow this sort of nonsense regularly, you might think that how Scotland was doing as part of the UK was pretty important in your decision whether independence was a good idea. Not in Nat-land, sadly. He's being reasonably restrained there. Usually his ilk say it would tell us "nothing" about independence.

Talking of Churchdown, I don't know it well, but I'm surprised there's not more talk of reopening its station. The line is open, must be a lot of people who go from there to Gloucester in the morning.

Yes, I spent my early years in Churchdown - moved up north as a teenager in 1980. My late (maternal) grandparents lived in nearby Brockworth.

I vaguely remember hearing that there was quite a lot of opposition to closing the station in the first place, of course Ashchurch (a bit to the north) reopened in the 1990s.

Small world. My cousin used to live in Brockworth.

I've used Ashchurch a few times, bit too far from Tewkesbury to be really useful, and not all that many trains. But I'm sure Laurence Robertson is making the case for public transport all the time. Bishops Cleeve isn't far from the mainline either, and massively expanded.

I know I'm always complaining about people doing simplistic rail stuff. There's probably a very good reason they can't put stops in at more places like this on the mainline. But I'll keep crayoning my fantasy stations.

I have had some wonderful dreams recently about family departures where they are sitting observing us by TV screens,they can send signals in a restricted way,I have to report regularly where I am given instructions but mostly told off.Salient point is they are o.k.and keeping an eye.

Cheltenham seems to have been the top place in the country for this not particularly appetizing social housing, unless that just reflects where the wiki page author knows. But it sure looked awful. I assumed social housing everywhere looked like this until I moved to London and saw the LCC estates. Even in the Major-early Blair heyday of run down publicly owned housing, they looked much better.

In fairness, I think Cheltenham might have done some renovation since then too.

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